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4 self-hosted Honeycomb alternatives

Honeycomb is a cloud observability platform for high-cardinality distributed tracing, event-based metrics and traces. It provides fast ad-hoc querying, visualization and analysis of production telemetry to investigate incidents and debug performance.

Alternatives to Honeycomb

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and time-series database for collecting metrics, querying with PromQL, and alerting on system and application health.

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65.8k stars10.8k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Sentry is a developer-focused platform for error tracking, performance monitoring, and tracing to help teams detect, investigate, and fix issues faster.

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44.6k stars4.8k forkslast commit Actively maintained

SigNoz is an open-source platform that collects and correlates logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry for unified observability.

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31.9k stars2.4k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Parseable ingests, analyzes, and extracts insights from MELT telemetry data with predictive analytics and a unified SQL/NL querying interface.

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2.4k stars171 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Honeycomb actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 4 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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